41_833 + 27 = 41_860
Current status:
gazing into the abyss of a big pile of reviews… the reviews are gazing back into me…
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I know the feeling! lol amusingly put 
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41860 (community total) + 8 (my reviews) = 41868
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41868(community total) + 81 (my reviews) = 41949
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41949 (community total) + 65 (my reviews) = 42014
Yay 42k reached, congrats everybody! 
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42 014 + 77 = 42 091
Thanks to the new vocab decks, i had a fine amount of reviews today 
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42091 (community total) + 20 (my reviews) = 42111
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42111 (community total) + 102 (my reviews) = 42213
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42213 (community total) + 28 (my reviews) = 42241
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42241 (community total) + 65 (my reviews) = 42306
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42306 + 34 = 42340
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42340 (community total) + 241 (my reviews) = 42581
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42581(community total) + 21 (my reviews) = 42602
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42602 (community total) + 31 (my reviews) = 42633
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42633 (community total) + 38 (my reviews) = 42,671
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42671 (community total) + 29 (my reviews) = 42700
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42700 (community total) + 94 (my reviews) = 42794
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42794 (community total) + 20 (my reviews) = 42814
About 117 years in: ~1680
In 1679 the current shogun, Tokugawa Ietsuna, became seriously ill and his succession was up for debate as he had no heir (3 children had died in the womb). When he died a year late in 1680, a high-ranking advisor (the たいろう) suggested the son of the Emperor become the next shogun, possibly in the hopes of having a strong influence over him due to his position and the fact that he could then ignore the Tokugawa. The rest of the council (many obviously Tokugawa relations) threw out the idea and appointed Ietsuna’s younger brother, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi as the new Shogun. Tsunayoshi immediately promoted his strongest supporter in the council as the new たいろう, and ordered another high ranking vassal to commit seppuku due to poor governing of his fief. A year later he introduced strict rules in an attempt to raise the living standard of the people, but also had strong personal religious beliefs in Neo-Confucianism. This led to the banning of prostitution and expensive material luxuries, though obviously these things simply went ‘underground’.
During the same year in Kyoto, currently the capital, was suffering through a famine due to population increase (no more wars!). There was also yet another fire in Edo (the Great Tenna Fire), though hardly as destructive as the Meireki fire. An interesting story from this fire has been made into a few romantic plays and puppet shows. A young girl had fallen in love with a temple page after meeting him during the fire at his temple. She later decided that to see him again she would have to start another fire, but she was caught in the act and tried for arson. The punishment was death, in the poetically appropriate manner of being burnt at the stake. The story goes (from Japanese records) that as she was 16 at the time, the court asked her if she was 15 years of age, as anyone below the age of 16 could not be given the death sentence. She honestly stated that she was actually 16, so the court asked a second time, insisting she must be 15. Not getting the hint, she replied she really was 16, and so was tried and sentenced to death.
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Reminds me of all the times I have to tell my kids how old they are when we go somewhere! “If anyone asks, you’re under 16, you’re 12, you’re over 10, you’re not 13 yet, ok got it? Tell me how old you are…”
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42_814 + 26 = 42_840
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